I’ve uploaded the Powerpoint to the site.
It’s an outgrowth of my “SLS Roadblock” project, which I’m figuring out how to either wrap up or extend.
[Update a while later]
Erratum: At the time I originally created these charts, for the FISO telecon at the end of January, Dana had proposed the Space Settlement bill. He has since actually introduced it.
Eric Berger writes that Congress is forcing NASA to eat its seed corn for the #JourneyToMars.
Yes.
#ProTip: If SLS made any sense at all, Congress wouldn't have to make it illegal for NASA to not build it. https://t.co/lK4mnV3ugO
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2016
[Update a while later]
This is a key point:
Since Tuesday, I have been asking communications officials in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate for clarification on what this extra funding will be used for and whether it’s needed. I haven’t received a response.
Because they don’t have a response. It is programmatic insanity to just throw hundreds of millions of dollars at a manager and expect them to spend it sensibly in a single year.
A defense of the SLS over at an Alabama news outlet. Let the fisking commence: Continue reading The Latest In Apolloism
The press declares war on the new documentary.
Of course it does. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
Here are the proceedings of the symposium in the Netherlands. Haven’t read through them, but I expect to see a lot of support for Moon Treaty-like “solutions.”
…because they’re socialist bureaucracies.
Best wishes to John Stossel on beating his lung cancer.
We told you so:
Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives. But its result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less.
Now the insurers are beginning to realize that in spite of all the subsidies and mandates working in their favor, and despite all of the cost-cutting they have had to do at the expense of consumers, they just can’t make money in this system.
Of course, it was designed to fail, to provide a political glide path to single payer.
…is coming to commercial aviation.
It’s hard to overstate what a technological revolution this is going to be.
Jon Goff has a blog post on a recent FISO telecon. One of the implications for all of these options, of course, is that SLS makes no sense.
The problem is that the issue is not whether or not “humans are causing global warming.” I can concede that there is a good possibility of that, and it still has zero implications for policy, absent quantification with sufficient confidence levels, which remain lacking.
[Afternoon update]
“Climatologists will say that the way the question is worded depends on whether they are included,” Morano said. “We have many skeptical scientists included as the 97 percent because of the way the questions [in surveys] are asked are so vague and broadly worded.”
Yup.